Statement from the Dean on the Death of George Floyd
1 June 2020

It is part of our mission and ministry that each day prayers should be offered in this cathedral church for peace and justice and for the good of the city.  Even in the midst of this pandemic these prayers have been offered without ceasing by the clergy and people of this cathedral.

At the Midday Mass today, Monday June 1, prayers will be offered for George Floyd, the black man killed in police custody in Minneapolis and for Dave Patrick Underwood, the Federal officer killed in the rioting in Oakland California and for two black teenagers shot in Albany on Saturday night in an incident unrelated to the riot in our city.

We will pray for all victims of injustice and violence not known to us but known to God.

We will pray also for the perpetrators of hatred, violence and injustice, that along with each one of us the Lord would change our hearts and make us instruments of his peace.

Dean, Leander S. Harding+